Typographical composing machine



Jan. 5, l932. R. R. MEAD 1,839,242

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINE Filed March 26 1950 ,2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Rv R. MEAD Jan. 5, 1932.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINE Filed March 26 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet Patented Jan. 5, 1932 U T D ST Es PATENT oFFlcEj-i 3101mm) R. I/[EAQOIEQUEENS VILLAGE,

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4 a lower resilient'or flexible j 'TxrocaArHIcAL ooMrosING MACHINE V Application filed March 26, 930. Serial No. 438,945.

This invention relates typographical composing machines, such aslinotype machines of the general :organization represented in U; S. Letters Patent BN0. 436,532,

wherein circulating matrices are released by escapements; from a channeled 'magazine in the order which'their characters-are to appear in print, the composed line transferred toithe face of a mold, the mold filled with molten metal to forma slugor linotype against the matrices which produce.the-type characters thereon, returned through distributing; mechanism to the magazine from which they. started. 7 In these machines, as the matrices. are released from the magazine, they pass into a sofcalled assembler entrance, provided with .a. series of vertically disposed guides-or partition plates, which guide and direct the matrices onto a constantly-driven, assembler belt discharging into the assembler. i

- The matrix guides ordinarily comprise each an upper rigid section which is fastened in the upper end'of the assembler entrance, and section attached to and depending from the upper section, the resilience of the lower section being necessary tov enable the matrices to" be deflected from their substantially vertical paths of travel onto the horizontal or inclined portions of the assembler belt. It should be noted at this point that the resilient sections of the partitions are subjected to repeated and frequently recurring flexings and bendings in the passage of the successive matrices through the assembler entrance in the composing operation, which flexings are more pronounced where, as in an auxiliary assembler entrance, the matrices are defiectedfrom a truly vertical path onto a horizontalportion of the assembler belt; andthefi'exings'and bendings of the lower, resilient sections are also quite pronouncedwhere unusually thick or display matrices are handled; i j y In the construction of these matrix. guides or partition plates as heretofore practiced, different methods of attachment of the-lower or resilient section to thexupper rigid section have been resorted 'to, but without proving entirely satisfactory. For instance, ithas and the matrices thereafter the cavity in the resilient section;;,

been the practice to attach'the lower section to the upper section by means of spot-welding, but in 'use the resilien't section, owing to the frequent flexing and-bending actions referred to, tion atthe edge ,of'the latter, which breakage it is believed is caused by the crystallization often breaks from the uppersec- I NEw YonxhssmNoR To i naemiirnatnn of-the metal due to theapplication of heat in the welding operation.

f The present invention aims to provide: a matrix guide or partition plate which will not be open to this the invention consists ina guide or partition of mproved form and constructlomj characterized bythe connection of the low-er resilient'section to the upper rigid section in such manner that'there will belittle or no 'danz-r ger of breakage In the specification tofolloW, the invention or displacement of the parts.

will be described in detail and the novel features thereof will be set forth in the append;-

ed'claims' In the accompanying drawings V ,Fig. l is a front elevation ofa portion of a linotype machine, equipped with both; a

main assembler entrance forthe main magmine, and an auxiliary assembler entrance for an auxiliary magazine, the front plates of said entrances being brokenaway to show the matrix guides or partition plates therein. Fig. Q is-a perspective view Oftll sections of one of the, 'mpro-ved matrix guides, disc0nnected from each other; v a r v Fig. 3 isa perspective viewofsaid sections assembled in operative relation preparatory to being connected together in accordance With the invention;

Fig. tions connected together and forming complete improved matrix guide;

Fig, 5 is a view in cross section, showing the successive stages inefiecting theconnection of the two sections; Y

4 is a similar v ew showing the seethe r Fig. 6 is a fragmentaryperspective view on an enlarged scale showingthelocal-deformation of the overhanging edgeof the recess in the rigid section,- to interlockwith' Fig.7 is a s1milarview showing the overhanging" edge u of. the rigid section deformed and other objections, and

. assembler entrance 6 onto a horizontal extension 7 of said assembler belt, whereby said matrices along with those from the main magazine, are delivered to the assembler elevator.

These assembler entrances comprise back plates 8 and 9 and front plates 10 and 11 respeotively, and are divided into channels as usual by upright matrix guides or partition plates 12, comprising each an upper fixed section fastened to the upper end of the back plate, and a lower resilient section connected at'its upper end to said-upper section so as to depend therefrom between said front and back plates, all as shown in Fig. 1.

' It is with these matrix guides or partition plates 12, and the method of connection of the two'sections thereof, that the present invention is particularly concerned, the novel manner of effecting such connection in accordance with the invention and without the I application of heat, providing a construction in which the lower resilient section, subject to repeated and oft recurring flexings and bendings incident to the assembling of the matrices into line, will be supported at its upper end without danger ofbreakage or displacement, and the crystallization of the metalheretofore the cause of their frequent breakage, will be avoided.

The detailed form of the improved matrix guide and method of constructing the same are shown in Figs. 2 to 7, where it will be seen that the upper rigid member or section 13 of the matrix guide, formed as usual with the two rearwardly extending fingers 13, for attachment to the back plate of the as sembler entrance in the customary manner, is provided in its side face with an undercut recess 15, presenting an overhanging marginal edge or wall 16. This recess is of general'semi-circularcontour to receive the upper rounded end li of the lower resilient member or section 14:, as shown in Fig. 3, the opposite edges of which are formed with cuts or notches 17. i 'In the assemblage and connection of the parts thus formed, the rounded upper end of the resilient section is first seated-in the recess'15,as shown in Fig. 3, and when so seated, the marginal edge or wall 16 of the recess will-overhang the edge of the rounded end 14* and the two cuts or notches 17, as best shown in view A, Fig. 5. By suitable means, the overhanging edge 16 of the recess is forcibly bent down against the side of the rounded end of the resilient section so as to bind tightly and firmly against the same, as shown in view D, Fig; 5, whereby said end of the section will be held frictionally against endwise displacement or escape from the recess, and whereby it will also be held positively against lateral displacement, so that in this way an effective and-durable connection of the two sections isobtained which is not liable to breakage or' displacement under the fre 'quent bendingsto which the section is in practice subjected.

As a further meansof preventing the endwise escape of the resilient member from said recess, the inwardly bent wall of the re cess is deformed locally into interlocking engagement wit-h the end of the resilient section, which is effected by staking or driving into the cuts or notches 17, the portions of the wall 16 overlying said notches, as shown at 18in views B and C of Fig. 5, and in Figs. 4 and 7. Or these local deformations of the overhanging wall may be effected before the wall is bentdown, as shown in Fig. 6. In either case, the efiectis to bring about an interlocking of the two sections of such character as to positively'prevent the endwise displacement or escape of the resilient section from the recess in the rigid section.

By fastening the upper end of the resilient lower section of the matrix guide in a recess in the side of the upper rigid section thereof, the side face of said end will not project beyond the side face-of the rigid section and thereby offer obstruction to the passage of the matrices downwardly through the channels constituted by said guides. The matrix guides or partitions constructed as above described, will'therefore present effective and smooth guiding surfaces for the down-traveling matrices as they pass through the assembler entrance, while at the same time the resilient portions of said guides are free to bend and flex laterally as the matrices are deflected onto the assembler belt, andthis without danger of breakage from continued bending.

To give the matrix guide a finished appear ance and to fill in and cover over any fine spaces or crevices that may be left after the deformation of the metal in fastening the sections together as above described, the completed guide as shown in Fig. 4:, may have a plating of a suitable metal, such as nickel, applied thereto, as shown at 19 in Fig. 7.

While I have illustrated and described the improved matrix guide or partition as being employed in the assembler entrance of a linotype machine, the invention in its broader aspects is not limited to such use, but is applicable also in other locations in a linotype machine and wherever it is necessary to subject the" matrices to a guidingaction while at the same time permitting of a deflection of the matrices from their path of travel.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is z- 1. The improved matrix guide plate or partition for linotype machines, comprising a rigid section, and a resilient sectionconnected thereto by frictional engagement of its upper end with said rigid section.

2. The improved matrix guide plate or partition for linotype machines, comprising a rigid section, and a resilient section having an interlocking connection at its upper end with said rigid section.

3. The improved assembler entrance guide or partition, comprising an upper rigid section and a lower resilient section having its upper end connected with the rigid section by frictional engagement therewith.

4. The'improved assembler entrance guide plate or partition, comprising an upper rigid section and a lower resilient section having an interlocking connection at its upper on with said rigid section.

5. The improved assembler entrance guide or partition comprising an upper rigid section and a lower resilient section connected to the upper section by both a frictional and an interlocking engagement therewith.

6. The improved assembler entrance guide plate or partition, comprising an upper rlgid' section having a recess in its side face, and a lower resilient section having its upper end seated and secured in said recess.

7 The improved assembler entrance guide or partition, tion. provided in its side with an undercut recess, and a lower resilient section having its upper end seated and secured in said under cut recess.

8. The improved assembler entrance guide or partition, comprising an upper rigid section provided in its side with an undercut recess, and a lower resilient section having its upper end seated in said undercut recess, the marginal edge of so as to bear tightly against and confine said upper end of the resilient section. V

9. The improved assemblerentrance guide or partition, comprising an upper rigid section provided with a recess presenting an overhanging marginal edge, and a lower resilient section seated at its upper end in said recess and provided in its edge with a notch, said overhanging edge of the recess. being deformed locally and seated in the said notch to prevent endwise displacement of the lower section.

comprising an upper rigid sec-' the recess being deformed has been duly signed b RICTIARD R. MEAD.

10. The improved assemblage entrance guide or partition, comprising an upper rigid sectlon provided with a recess presenting an overhanging marginal edge, and a lower 

